Introduction

Question 1

What is business bnalysis?

Answer 1

Business analysis is the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.

Question 2

What does business analysis enable?

Answer 2

Business analysis enables an enterprise to articulate needs and the rationale for change and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value.

Question 3

Describe business analysis initiatives

Answer 3

Business initiatives can be strategic, tactical or operational

Question 4

Where can business analysis be performed?

Answer 4

Business analysis may be performed within the boundaries of a project or throughout enterprise evolution and continuous improvement.

Question 5

What can business analysis be used to understand?

Answer 5

It can be used to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current state to the future state.

Question 6

Who is a Business Analyst?

Answer 6

A BA is any person who performs tasks that are responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources within an enterprise

Question 7

What is a BA responsible for?

Answer 7

The business analyst is responsible for eliciting actual needs of stakeholders.

Question 8

What are business analysis activities?

Answer 8

Understanding Enterprise problems and goals.
Analyzing needs and solutions.
Devising Strategies.
Driving change.
Facilitating stakeholder collaboration.

Question 9

What are the BABOK Knowledge Areas?

Answer 9

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

Elicitation and Collaboration

Requirements Life Cycle Management

Strategy Analysis

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

Solution Evaluation

Question 10

What is Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring ?

Answer 10

Describes the tasks that BA’s perform to organize and coordinate the efforts of BA’s and stakeholders. These tasks produce outputs that are used as key inputs and guidelines for other tasks.

Question 11

What is Elicitation and Collaboration ?

Answer 11

Describes the tasks that BA’s perform to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results obtained.

Question 12

What is Requirements Life Cycle Management?

Answer 12

Describes the tasks that BA’s perform in order to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.

Question 13

What is Strategy Analysis ?

Answer 13

Describes the business analysis work that must be performed to collaborate with stakeholders in order to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance ( that business need), enable the enterprise to address that need, and align the resulting strategy for the change with higher- and lower level strategies.

Question 14

What is Requirements Analysis and Design Definition ?

Answer 14

Describes the tasks that BA’s perform to structure and organize requirements discovered during elicitation activities, specify model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solutions options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.

Question 15

What is Solution Evaluation?

Answer 15

Describes the tasks that business analysts perform to assess the performance of and value derived by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal o barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.

Question 16

What is a Task?

Answer 16

A task is a discreet piece of work that may be performed as part of business analysis.

Question 17

In what order are tasks performed?

Answer 17

Task may be performed in any order, as long as the necessary inputs to a task are present

Question 18

In what way are tasks presented?

Answer 18

Purpose
Description
Inputs 
Elements
Guideline & Tools
Techniques  
Stakeholders
Outputs

Question 19

What is the Purpose of a task?

Answer 19

The purpose section provides a short description of the reason for a BA to perform the task, and the value created through performing the task.

Question 20

What is the Description for a task?

Answer 20

The description section explains in greater detail regarding what the task is, why it is performed, and what it should accomplish

Question 21

What are the inputs for a task?

Answer 21

The inputs section lists inputs for the task
Inputs are information consumed or transformed to produce an output, and represent the information necessary for a task to begin.

Question 22

What are the Elements for a task?

Answer 22

The Elements section describe the key concepts that are needed to understand how to perform the task.

Elements are not mandatory as part of performing a task, and their usage might depend upon the business analysis approach.

Question 23

What are the Guideline & Tools for a task?

Answer 23

The Guidelines and Tools section lists resources that are required ti transform the input into an output.

A guideline provides instructions or descriptions on why or how to understand a task.
A tool is something used to understand a task.

Question 24

What are the Techniques for a task?

Answer 24

The techniques section lists the techniques that can be used to perform the business analysis task.

Question 25

What are the Stakeholders for a task?

Answer 25

The stakeholders section is composed of a generic list of stakeholders who are likely to participate in performing that task or who will be affected by it .

Question 26

What are the Outputs for a task?

Answer 26

The outputs section describes the results produced by performing a task.

Outputs are created, transformed, or changed in state as a result of the successful completion of a task.

An output may be a deliverable or be part of a larger deliverable.